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The Nordic Media Group is a forum with participants from Nordic NRENs including NORDUnet, and open to participants from the campuses connected by the Nordic NRENs. The main goal of the forum is to allow sharing information all forms of media technology and media services relevant to research and education in the Nordic area. Discussion is focused on
create an arena to bring, share and discuss issues/topics related to optical networking. This could be anything from planning, design and operation issues to topics which touch the future trends and directions in optical networking arena.
By doing this we will be able to use our expertise across national boundaries and help/learn from each other.
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- Operations and issues of established services
- Requirements and ideas for new services or updates of existing services
- Technologies related to the services area
All forms of media services are relevant to the groups, but in particular two types of services are discussed
- Meeting and conferencing services, including H.323 meeting services and desktop meeting services, webcasting, classroom conferencing, and more
- Video capture, storage, and streaming services, including embeddable media
The main activity of the group fall in three areas
- A mailing list
- Weekly conference calls, alternating between bi-weekly calls on conferencing services and bi-weekly calls on video services
- Topical workshops on relevant topics, often held in relation to larger meetings such as the NORDUnet Techical Workshop or NREN conferences
Logistics
Membership of the NONF is open for staff from Nordic NRENs, but we will invite vendors and other experts to take part in our discussion when it is needed tooNORDUnet, and campus IT. Others may be invited on an ad-hoc basis.
Chair: Kurosh BozorgebrahimiThorkild Jensen, UNINETTDeIC
Workshops:
The main forum meetings will be hold as workshops once/twice a year depends on need. We will try to collocate the workshops with NORDUnet events.
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